The Fall River Board of Assessors held a meeting on June 16, 2022, with members Nancy Heino, Richard Wilson, and Richard Gonzalez present. The board approved the minutes from their open and executive sessions on May 26, 2022, and May 2, 2022, both by unanimous 3-0 votes. They also unanimously approved the invoice proof list. A significant portion of the meeting involved the approval of preliminary tax warrants for Fiscal Year 2023, including the Real Estate Tax Warrant, Community Preservation Warrant, and Personal Property Warrant. These warrants authorize the tax collector to issue preliminary tax bills, which are due on August 1st and November 1st and are calculated as 50% of the previous year's taxes. The board then moved into executive session at 10:42 AM to discuss abatements and exemptions, reconvening in open session at 11:48 AM. Following the executive session, they approved several abatements and exemptions, including Fiscal 22 statutory exemption number 106, Fiscal 22 abatement number 68, Fiscal 21 abatement number 159, and Fiscal 22 personal property abatements number two and five, all by 3-0 votes. The board addressed an open meeting law complaint regarding their May 26, 2022, meeting, which alleged the open meeting advisory was not read. It was clarified that the advisory was read, but the recording started late. The complaint was referred to the law department by a 3-0 vote. An update was provided on the ongoing city property measuring and listing project, noting over 3,300 properties inspected and maps A through G completed. The next meeting was scheduled for June 30th at 10:00 AM to close out the fiscal year, and the meeting adjourned at 11:52 AM with a 3-0 vote.
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pursuant to the open meeting law any person may make an audio or video recording of this public meeting or may transmit them reading through any medium attendees are therefore advised that such recordings or transmissions are being made whether perceived or unperceived by those present and are deemed acknowledged and permissible roll call nancy heino here richard wilson yeah richard gonzalez here 3-0 time
0:3310 33 the meeting is currently open for june 14.
0:39i'm sorry 16 says 14th on my nose
0:50item number two approval of minutes of open an executive session for may 26 2022.
1:02is there a second second roll call nancy high note yes rich wilson yeah rich gonzales yes moshe passes 3-0 approval of minutes and open in executive session may 26 2022 item number three that was approval of minutes of executive minutes of may second twenty twenty oh that one was may 26th we just did right this this one we're doing is may 2nd 2022.
1:36uh motion to approve second roll call nancy i know yes for tulsa yes rich gonzalez yes motion passes three zero to approve the minutes of may 7.
1:50item number four invoice proofs
2:08okay
2:50could i have a motion to approve the uh invoice proof list second roll call nancy high note yes rich wilson yes wisconsin yes motion passes three zero to approve the invoice process
3:10thank you
3:19item number five monthly report i had a chance to look at it
4:25all right yes
4:53uh
5:06item number six preliminary uh real estate tax warrant 2023.
5:13uh we can take these uh all together because they're all warrants so six seven eight uh item number seven is uh 2023 preliminary community preservation warrant and item number eight is fiscal year 23 preliminary personal property wine
5:46uh
5:56okay
6:30i don't see a person oh okay the person got it there's three of each oh okay it hasn't come yet oh they all have to be signed yes please maybe i didn't sign the other one from the back oh the penguins are coming
6:58this there you go
7:36mr chair now that you've signed these warrants it might be interesting to tell the people that are watching that what these warrants do is they authorize the tax collector now to issue the preliminary tax bills that will be mailed out in the next two weeks and that those bills are due on august 1st and november 1st right and that those bills are calculated by taking 50 of their taxes from the this year that's ending
8:06subject to certain adjustments and that these are purely estimates and that their final tax bill will be issued after the values are certified and the recap is approved and the city council has their tax classification hearing in november but this is the beginning of the process and so this is what's going to allow the tax collector to send out the tax bills that is correct with that i item number nine
8:37may i have a motion to go into executive session discussion of abatements and exemptions for submittalist pursuant to glc38 section 21a7 glc 5960 review atp matters pursuant submit less pursuant to glc38 section 21a3 since discussion in public would be detrimental to the city's legal position we will reconvene following the executive session move to go into executive session second roll call nancy hi no yes rich
9:08wilson rich gonzalez yes 3-0 time 10 42 10 42 again we will reconvene follow anything hi everyone welcome back may i have a motion motion to go back into open meeting second auction roll call nancy hi now yes richard wilson mr gonzalez yes time 11 48. 11 48 back into open session mr chairman i make a motion to approve um the following fiscal 22 statutory exemption number 106. second and motion
9:46roll call nancy i know yes rich wilson wisconsin yes motion passes 3-0 approval of 106 exemption mr chairman i make a motion that we approved fiscal 22 abatement number 68 roll call nancy high note yes rich wilson richard gonzalez yes motion passes 3-0 approval of payment number 68.
10:1322.
10:15mr chairman i make a motion that we approve the fiscal 21 abatement number 159 second emotion roll call nancy high note yes rich wilson yes rich gonzalez yes motion passes 3-0 to approve a baby number 159 and mr chairman i make a motion that we approve the following 22 personal property abatements number two and five second the notion to approve nazi high note yes rich wilson yes
10:45where's gonzales yes motion passes 3-0 to approve the following abatements right
11:01is that it yeah item number 10 open meeting law complaint regarding may 26 2022 board of assessors meeting received june 8 2020.
11:12mr chairman i make a motion to refer not to the law department second nazi high note yes rich wilson wisconsin yes motion passes 3-0 to refer the complaint to the law department mr chairman just if i could address that that open meeting law complaint was because uh the person alleged that the open meeting advisory that people heard at the beginning of this meeting hadn't been read at the beginning of that meeting
11:38we've gone back and looked at it and it was just that through an advertise the tape started late the advisory was actually read but that's the reason for the complaint and that'll be responded to by the law department okay item number uh 11 all other relevant business now 48 hours i i do have something to say regarding the update i received yesterday on the uh measuring and listing that we have
12:08ongoing of the city uh currently uh the company has given us over three thousand uh 300 properties that have been inspected uh they're on uh actually they've already completed maps a through g they're somewhere around the niagara fire station and as of right now everything seems to be going okay next item scheduling of the next meeting um two weeks we don't we we have the bill commitments and warrants signed um
13:03unless we have some uh pending uh fellow taxpayer cases that we need to meet on so this would be your final meeting in 20 yeah i would say and then we can start june 30th this two weeks from today june you want to end it on june 30th do you want to uh to the next fiscal year i think it'd be a good idea to end end it on june 30th because if there's any unfinished
13:27business for the fiscal year unpaid bills we can we can do that 10 o'clock sounds good june 30 at 10 o'clock all right with that they have a motion to a gin motion to return second roll call nancy i know yes rich wilson yes which consoles yes time 11 52 11 52 end of meeting motion to a gin thank you everyone see you in two weeks